US Patent Issued to Vodafone Group Services on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus and method for detecting elements of an assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,902, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Vodafone Group Services Ltd. (Newbury, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for detecting elements of an assembly" was invented by Orlando Grigoriadis (Newbury, Great Britain) and Nazmi Shafin (Newbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing module for a communication device includes memory for storing a key and processing elements. These elements receive a current sequence number and a random number from a network entity, and check if the current sequence number is within a range based on a previously received sequence number stored in memory. If not, they generate a sequ...